Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.